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Amazing thread. All of the girls going in without reading anything. I can't. 
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Everybody is interested in Madonna sis.
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Exactly, nobody was coming into the thread that said "MDNA Reviews"
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Good for Madonna.
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Good for Madonna.
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You must care if you're still in the thread.
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the reviews made me excited for the album.
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Brilliantly bonkers
Madonna's MDNA.
We've had a sneak preview of the new album get ready for terrible French accents, amazing pop raves and heartfelt ballads.
Girls Gone Wild
After the relative failure of the album's first single Give Me All Your Luvin' in with a bullet at No 37 in the UK this throbbing, having-a-bit-of-a-dance electro-pop stomper was released a few weeks ago in the form of a fairly embarrassing lyric video. Embarrassing because the lyrics are probably the worst thing about it, all "you got me in the zone, DJ play my favourite song" club LOLs. Co-produced by Italian DJ Benny Benassi, it's a lot more exciting musically, especially when the whole thing disintegrates in the middle eight, dropping out completely as Madonna coos "forgive me". A signal we're back in Confessions on a Dance Floor territory following the relative misstep of Hard Candy.
Gang Bang
Madonna in playful mode. Big throbbing industrial-tinged beats, spoken word verses, no real chorus, just a ridiculous collection of sound effects (police sirens, gunshots) and imposing menace that's actually pretty fun in a kind of slightly unhinged way. Gang Bang recalls her American Life album in its slightly uneasy marrying of genres, with a sudden dubstep breakdown its most obvious detour. Lyrically it's a twisted revenge fantasy rather than a sordid romp, closing with the line: "If you're going to drive like a bitch then you're going to die like a bitch."
I'm Addicted
Again co-produced by Benny Benassi, this continues the theme of "Fun!" (however forced it might seem) that permeates most of MDNA's first half. "I need to dance," Madonna trills over squiggly synth squelches and a beat that morphs into a fairly ridiculous Calvin Harris-esque breakdown. By the end she's chanting "M D N A", which you imagine might be shouted back at her by some fairly large crowds come summer.
Turn Up the Radio
This one, co-produced by Martin Solveig, should have been the second single. Its relatively calm intro is a timely breather from the throbbing bass and feels more carefree and instinctive than what has gone before. Over a bouncing beat that filters, stutters and drops in all the right places, it slowly morphs into an anthemic raveathon, with a lovely middle eight underpinned by almost tribal drums. Again, the theme is the need for one and all to chill out and have some fun.
Give Me All Your Luvin' feat Nicki Minaj and MIA
If you were one of the 108 million people who watched this year's Super Bowl halftime show then you've probably heard this first single. If, however, you listen to the radio then you probably haven't, seeing as it wasn't playlisted on Radio 1 and received limited exposure elsewhere. Though admittedly not her best comeback single that's Frozen, in case you were wondering it's still a fun song, Solveig slightly reworking the bouncing beats and acoustic strums of his amazing Hello single and drafting in Nicki Minaj and MIA to add some personality to a middle section that's slightly dubstep-interlude-by-numbers.
Some Girls
Probably the album's weakest moment, with Madonna's vocals pulled, processed and buried deep in the mix, acting more like another instrument within a deluge of filtered beats. It could have easily been a leftover from her Music album, William Orbit unable to find a melodic core in a song that probably should have been included as a bonus track.
Superstar
Opening with a massive Cheerleader-style drum beat reminiscent of the extended intro to Solveig's Hello this is much better, Madonna sounding playful and energised, singing about how her new boyfriend is pretty amazing. In fact, she likes him so much she'll let him "have the password to my phone". Unfortunately, as with most songs on the first half of the album, the chorus is a bit weak, a simple "oh la la, you're my superstar". Also, memo to Madonna: massive pop stars knowing about dubstep is probably a bit old hat now, but we get another dubstepesque breakdown nonetheless.
I Don't Give A (feat Nicki Minaj)
Brilliantly odd. Opening with a bang, literally, it goes on to morph into an America Life-style rap (no wait, come back) that features a list of things Madonna has to do ("meet the press
sign the contract"). The industrial beats soon make way for spooky chants and out of nowhere Minaj pops up, finishing her rap with "there's only one Queen and that's Madonna, bitch". If this isn't being made into a T-shirt as you read this then there's something wrong with the world of merchandise.
I'm a Sinner
Futuristic-sounding, double-tracked beats hail a song that veers from having fun on a night out ("all the boys and the girls wanna be like us tonight"), to a religious revelry ("Hail Mary, Jesus Christ on the cross died for our sins"). Produced by William Orbit, his signature motifs are all over it, from the Ray of Light-style guitar line that emerges from nowhere to the bit later on that sounds like Beautiful Stranger.
Love Spent
Back come the guitars, this time working around processed strings, a pretty melody and lyrics about wanting to replace money in a man's affections. "Hold me like your money
Spend your love on me," Madonna sings over four-to-the-floor beats and a properly ravey middle eight. There's an amusing moment when she deadpans: "Frankly, if my name was Benjamin, we wouldn't be in this mess we're in."
Masterpiece
Over a simple fingerclick drum beat and a pretty acoustic riff, this ballad which appeared on the W.E. soundtrack takes the painting metaphor hinted at in the title and runs with it. "If you were the Mona Lisa, you'd be hanging in the Louvre," Madonna sings, with the implication being that it's hard to love something perfect and distant ("the look but please don't touch me type"). It's one of the best vocal performances on the album, her voice soft and sweet throughout, lifting effortlessly into the chorus of "I'm right by your side, like a thief in the night, I stand in front of the masterpiece." A breath of fresh air after heavy bass and ravey synths.
Falling Free
Opens with a spooky, slightly unhinged piano section that's more lonely woman in haunted house than Coldplay stadium filler. Deep strings underpin the whole thing, with just the piano and strange electronic textures similar to Ray of Light's Drowned World for company. As with most of the later songs, you could easily read a lot into the lyrics, specifically thinking about Madonna's divorce from Guy Ritchie. "We're both free, free to go," she sings as the strings sigh and slowly settle. It's a haunting way to end the main album.
Beautiful Killer
The first of four bonus tracks, this draws on a fairly popular Madonna theme: that of being drawn to something bad for you. "Baby I'll let you shoot me down" and "I can't really talk with a gun in my mouth" are two lyrical highlights on a song that was rightly left off the main album.
I ****ed Up
This, however, definitely should have been on it. Opening with a big, bass-heavy beat and a snapped "I ****ed up", it's Madonna at her self-lacerating best. "I made a mistake, nobody does it better than myself," she sings as the beat is joined by strings and sudden bursts of guitar. Suddenly the beat skips and speeds up, creating the album's grimiest, least polished moment. Fans of Confessions on a Dance Floor's Sorry will be pleased to hear her sing "je suis desolι" in the least convincing French accent.
B-Day Song (feat MIA)
Rumours that this MIA collaboration was bumped from the main tracklisting following middlefingergate were not confirmed during the playback, but it's more than likely it was left off because it's Motown/Spectorish beat doesn't really fit with the rest of the album. It's a jolly romp though, with MIA joining in on the chorus but letting Madonna deliver the line "give me a spanking, start the day off right" by herself.
Best Friend
A real highlight. With a massive electro beat that pogos all over the place, this is a brilliant rush of darting synths. Lyrically it's about a relationship that should never have been, Madonna lamenting the loss of a friendship after things went wrong. There are nods, perhaps, to her previous life as part of the English gentry "I miss the countryside in which we used to lay" and it's one of the few times on the album where the chorus truly soars. It ends with the line "it's so sad that it had to end" and, generally, this is true of Madonna's MDNA, an album that's been trailed by weak singles, but contains brilliantly bonkers moments.
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Sahn, bringing in the ratings for this thread! 
For a second, I thought UAE was back.
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1. I'm not everybody.
2. I never said that I didn't care.
3. I'm actually glad for Madonna, hence the "Good for Madonna."
I was just pointing out the inconsistency.
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I wanna hear Turn Up The Radio & I Don't Give A 
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The gherls must be seething. I guess you'll drag another day.
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Sahn. Madonna has taught you well. Snatch those views with that thread title.
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Today we had the chance to listen to the new Madonna album as a whole to review it for our website and we have to say it's really a very good work that will please both casual and hard-die fans. Well maybe it won't be pleasing a lot catholic groups as the queen of pop dips again in the imagery she grew up with in an even strongest way than like a prayer. With Like A Prayer she rebelled against the religious "values" imposed on her by her family, with MDNA she revisits the themes adding some twisted irony proving that she may have Kabbalish blood in her veins now but her bones are still impregnated with catholicism, rivisiting again themes as sin, death, shame, betrayal , twisted love affairs and regret.
The opening of the album's first song, Girl Gone Wild is a hint of what's instore. She reprises one of the most sacred catholic prayers, the Act Of Contrition, and revisit it as a bad girl would do.
1. Girl Gone Wild
A great way to open the album, with a song that grows on listeners more and more. We didn't like it AT ALL a week ago and now we are singing it and humming it all the time. It really represents the album well as the whole album is like a diary of a catholic girl gone wild. We still have to forgive her for J-low inspired bit "Dj play my favourite song" but we are quite happy with it!
2. Gang Bang
When MadonnaTribe first reported online about this track last November it could well be defined as an electronic ballad. It was sung in Madonna's clearest voice and told the story of a love affair from the side of a hopeless victim. Now, the track has turned into one of the most hysterical tracks of the album with a beat inviting anyone to the dance floor and with some of the most daring Madonna lyrics in which Madonna turns into a killer for love and she's proud of it, no regrets! From the first listening the theme plot of the song appears to be about a woman who first kills her lover for betraying her, then take her car and drives insanely on the street to commit suicide. In a firm cold voice she says to herself "now drive bitch, I said drive bitch and while you're at it die bitch, that's right drive bitch."
At one point her thoughts go back to her killed lover and she says he deserve it "I'm going straight to hell and I got a lot of friends there. And if I see that bitch in hell, I'm gonna shoot him in the head again. Cause I wanna see him die over and over and over.." Lyrically it's not the typical Madonna track, not a surprise it was axed from the family friend version of the album sold by Walmart! Musically the song reminds us a lot of Impressive Instant from Music (2000) and it end with an "If you act like a bitch then die like a bitch!" sentence and the noice of a police car approaching.
3. I'm addicted
This is the one we like the less. Lyrically it doesn't add anything to the Madonna body of work. It's a song a-la I'm so stupid, with no real meaning. A lot of people like it tough and we respect that. At one point she starts chanting and repeating MDNA, MDNA, MDNA... we can report that legend says in the original early demo the word that is now replaced with MDNA was actually Hashish! that would really explain a lot!
4. Turn Up the Radio
This is probably the most Gaga-ish song on the album. Not right there with her great dance numebers like Into The Groove or Hung Up so We are not very fond of this one either. Fans were already exposed to bits and pieces of this one in the medley released online with Give Me All Your Luving and the comments were not so positive. We second that opinion but we promise this is the second and last one we don't particulary like.
5. Give Me All Your Luvin'
L.U.V. this song a lot ... Y.O.U all know it... L.U.V. listening to this single on the radio... Y.O.U have to request it a lot! It's poppy, it's catchy, it's pure Madonna.
6. Some Girls
This track somehow reminds us of her very early stuff she did with Emmy before her first album, probably it's the way she sings it or the fact the melody seems a nursery rhyme at times like her early stuff.
7. Superstar
"Like Brando on the silver screen you are a Superstar, that's what you are", this is the true romantic number of the album, a love song in the tradition of True Blue, Cherish, Nothing Fails. Madonna's love interest is compared to superduper actors like Marlon Brando, Bruce Lee, John Travolta, Jimmy Dean and to historic characters such as Ceaser or Al Capone. As for the lyrics imagine a list of songs rhyming with the word star! Oh La La, Another winner for us!
8. I dont give a
This is not the typical Madonna groove, a song that has parts of rap a-la American Life in which Madonna stresses over and over the fact that although she has made mistakes it's not other people's right to judge her. The ghost of Guy Ritchie also haunts the songs when she says "I've tried to be a good wife" and "I don't care what people say about myself". The track features a rap by Nicki MInaj that at some point reminds everyone that "there is only one Queen and that's Madonna!" and ends in a with an "epic chorus" and epic orchestration, the perfect epic background music for the trailer of an epic movie! How many times did we say epic? That's used to stress the concept!
9.I'm a Sinner
Ok, lyrically this is the new Like a Prayer, the song that will make catholics mad. Her voice on this song once again sounds different, you barely recognize her at the very beginning. Musically, it's the most classic Orbit guitar sounding song on this album, Ray of light remixes meet Beautiful Stranger but yet in a great different way. It should definitely be a single, with a great video accompaining it, she'd become once again the Queen Of Controversy many fans adore and in this case the controversy would spark from the nursery rhyme she says on the history of the most popular saints.It stars with a "Hail Mary full of grace, get down on your knees and pray" going ahead with a " Jesus Christ hang on the cross died for our sins it's such a loss". She continues with "St Christopher find my way I'll be coming home one day" and "St Sebastian don't you cry let those poison arrows fly"! Stuff that would really want Pope-a-Ratzi cover his ears with his velvet cape! Definitely one of our best favourites.
10. Love Spent
It starts with an Orbit guitar, Madonna has a sweet voice on this one. ANother love song a la Nothing Fails that would also fit well on the American Life album. There's a great, uncredited, reprise of the Abba theme used in Hung Up that pops up here and there throughout the song. Good one!
11. Masterpiece
This song HAD to be on this album, after discussing it for a while Madonna decided to include the W.E. on the record and she made a good decision. Masterpiece fits perfectly between Love Spent and Falling Free and it's the kind of classic, simple and straighforword Madonna ballad that she hasn't been delivering for a long time and it lets you catch your breath after all the dance numbers that preceed it!
12. Falling Free
The closing number for this album is a slow paced song co-written with Joe Henry. Her way of singing it is very sweet, using her "evita operatic voice" at times, and the theme is very melancolic. There no loop at all accompagning the song, it's just her voice, some Orbit electronic sounds and music instruments like cello. It's a song that Bjork would do and it also reminds us score music of some Japanese animation series. A great way to close the standard edition of MDNA
13. Beautiful Killer
We're back to dance music with beautiful killer and back on the theme of death. Here's she's a victim who is in love with a man who wants to kill her. This is another great song "You can call my name and I'll be around, maybe I'll let you shoot you me down cause you're a beautiful killer with a beautiful face". Like in her film Snake Eyes, the song ends with a gun shot hinting the fact her beautiful killer finally killed her.
14. I ****ed up
To have regrets or not to have regrets? this is the question! On this one Madonna says she knows she made a mistake, she is so ashamed and whishes to take it back but she can't. She says nobody screws things better than her. She says she's sorry and "je suis desole'" but it's not clear to whom she is apologizing with. A friend, an ex lover, a ex husband? The ghost of G.R. appears again when she says she misses "running in the country".
15. B-Day Song
It's the most positive and light song on this album, as cherish was on like a prayer. Madonna re-invented the classic motown sound for this track in which she, as first reported by Madonnatribe in December she celebrates her own birthday in the most joyous way. It's a great song that has been switched from the standard edition to the deluxe second disc as it doesn't completely fit the theme of the main album.
16. Best Friend
This is the real end of it. In this one she's is missing her best friend and the things and places they shared together..
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Give Me All Your Luvin' feat Nicki Minaj and MIA
If you were one of the 108 million people who watched this year's Super Bowl halftime show then you've probably heard this first single. If, however, you listen to the radio then you probably haven't, seeing as it wasn't playlisted on Radio 1 and received limited exposure elsewhere. Though admittedly not her best comeback single that's Frozen, in case you were wondering it's still a fun song, Solveig slightly reworking the bouncing beats and acoustic strums of his amazing Hello single and drafting in Nicki Minaj and MIA to add some personality to a middle section that's slightly dubstep-interlude-by-numbers.
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"Turn Up The Radio" already coming as my favorite Madonna single this century.  "Get Together" still is.
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I love what you did here sahn
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Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this record is that there are no obvious hits on it.
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1. I'm not everybody.
2. I never said that I didn't care.
3. I'm actually glad for Madonna, hence the "Good for Madonna."
I was just pointing out the inconsistency.
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Stop derailing the thread. Your comments were unnecessary from the beginning.
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